{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2298337,"song":"Murder Steer","artist":"Ian Tyson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11480991-murder-steer-chords-by-ian-tyson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2298337?type=chord","rating":4.65463,"votes":4,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nCome all ye brave cow punchers, wherever you may be[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy tale is of the nineties, when the west was wild and free[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]E7[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSouth Texas Brewster county, and early work was a goin' on[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThree thousand head of cattle, thrown together in the dawn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow the biggest outfits of that time were Wentworth and Dubois[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nTheir rep was a man named Gilleland sent to represent their law[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA man of pride and arrogance, he's oft described that way[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he set the wheels in motion for the horror of that day[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow on that day a yearling bull was claimed by Henry Pogh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the roundup boss agreed, said with Henry he should go[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFine Gilleland loped over and cried produce the mama cow[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]E7[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOr you'll play hell a takin her and we'll settle her here and[/tab]\r\nnow\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhen Henry Pogh and Gilleland met in the center of the herd[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nTragedy was near at hand though no one could hear their words[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut when the dust had settled on that January day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHenry Pogh was found gunned down; Gilleland rode hard away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nSo the boys dragged out the yearling bull, branded murder on his[/tab]\r\nhide\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd January twenty on the maverick's other side[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen they turned him loose to wander like some phantom of the[/tab]\r\nplains\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn Texas on the full of the moon his legend still remains[/tab]\r\n(This last verse is slowed down)\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOut on the lonesome ranges, in the silent mists of dawn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe ghost steer comes a glidin', then suddenly he's gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                                                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nStill searchin' for the cowboys that placed a curse upon his[/tab]\r\nhide\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                              [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDoomed to roam eternity, murder branded on his hide[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nnow\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhide\n\n\nplains\n\n(This last verse is slowed down)\n\n\n\nhide","chords":["Am","Dm","G","E7","A","F","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}